I bailed off Twitter today. I announced my departure and where to find me on Signal, Insta and Mastodon, and yanked the ripcord. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s transparent at this point. GamerGate, the alt-right, the whole Trumpiss ecosystem is all of a piece. There is no daylight between QAnon and Elon Musk and antivaxxers and the whole miserable miasma. And I am tired of being even tangentially complicit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019m down to only about half a dozen people I don\u2019t really have available in another social media. It sucks, because the friends in my phone have been the bulk of my friends in recent years as everyone moves away. And it doesn\u2019t feel good to go back to Insta, even protected by the mobile web interface. But what Twitter brings to the table isn\u2019t worth what it takes off any longer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019ll suck, it\u2019ll be difficult, but at some level it also feels like my soul just took a three pound shit. And now we wait to see what happens – because the future survival of Twitter depends on what people are willing to countenance and what comes of their willingness. At this point, though, it\u2019s safe to say it will probably be necessary to destroy Twitter in order to save it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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I bailed off Twitter today. I announced my departure and where to find me on Signal, Insta and Mastodon, and yanked the ripcord. It\u2019s transparent at this point. GamerGate, the alt-right, the whole Trumpiss ecosystem is all of a piece. There is no daylight between QAnon and Elon Musk and antivaxxers and the whole miserable … <\/p>\n